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#ROM PABIS. 265
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Much , of my time in Paris has been spent in conversing with , those wlio were likely to afford me true information on tlie state of the is little in
lower classes , and particularly of the women . There use which runnin they g throug l h institutions I mentioned , having without been a clear favored idea with of the an introduc society to
and tion cousin to M . Eugene to app La y Sceur . Kendu Hosalie , Chef . au This Ministere gentleman de 1 ' Instruction is perfectly Publi cognisan que t _,
of the state of our English poor . He attended the Educational Conference which took place in London in September 185 7 , and visited ht and four
the worst districts of our metropolis , between eleven at nig in the morning , attended by a guard of policemen . He seemed to StGilesthan
have been more impressed with the misery and vice of . 's w of any not other hinin parish Paris ; to and comp full are y confirmed with it * The my F observation aubourg St . that Marceau there _*
g throug Ilosalie h had the heart her life of - _'which long mission I passed is one said day to , be and the in poorest which La and Soeur the
John worst Bull part . ' of could this never city ; but , thoug it h to , squalid Pear enoug Street h , " the Westminster most bigotted nor compare
, , even ( to our shame be it spoken ) to streets and courts in the very midst of our West End . Much of the difference may fairly be
attributed to climate , and to the comparatively small size of the city * The blue sky and the bright sunshine are a large item in the
and happ the iness absence of the of very smoke poorest in the when air contributes they can greatl be had y to for the nothing cleanly ,
appearance of the " great unwashed . " Then the branching Seine , with its broad runs riht through the heart of Paris , and the
free space thus quays gained , is of vast g importance to the sanitary condition of tlie low arters . A spectator looking down from the towers of
Notre Dame qu would see that every arrondissement must occupy only a part of the strip of Paris lying north and south between the Seine and
the country : while from the gallery of St . Paul ' s the gazer sees mile after mile of Londonas the smoke-curtain heavily drifts from side
to side with the currents , of the wind ; the parks lie far away west , and the river Thamesencumbered with dense streets to the very
water ' s edge , and darkened , by the smoke of countless steamers and factoriesseems to for nothing * so far as spacelightand air are
concerned , , in refreshing go the mig , hty town throug , h which , it takes its muddy course from to age . The long streets of Paris , on the
age contrary , run up from the river-side to shake hands with the country . A mile and a half from the quays the gardens begin to grow
frequent . In this glorious May-time the horse-chestnuts are bursting their sheaths and shooting out leafy branches over the suburban
streets . The window-sills are rimmed with flowers , and a Sister of Charity , who lives in the very house in the Faubourg St . Marceau
before alluded to , sliowed me large gardens stretching out behind , where " ces messieurs " who live in the adjoining buildings are so
excessively matutinal , that they get up at six o ' clock on cold April mornings to cultivate their flowers before going to business . VOIi . V . T
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/49/
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